I would say that not everyone needs to learn to develop software. Software development is a sufficiently difficult and complex job, that is best left to trained

I would say that not everyone needs to learn to develop software. Software development is a sufficiently difficult and complex job, that is best left to trained experts who do it full-time. But everyone should learn how to use their computer effectively. Everyone would be better off if they were a "power user." And in the current state of computing, the complexity of computer architecture is not yet sufficiently encapsulated as to render it unnecessary to attain basic competency in some programming language in order to achieve that. In other words, in order to leverage your computer's full power, you need to learn some scripting language and be comfortable operating your computer from a shell (be it bash, cmd, powershell, whatever). Most people don't seem to have a clue how many degrees of computer literacy there are. The assumption seems to be, that you are either "computer illiterate" (which means you are an old person who hunts-and-pecks at the keyboard, double-clicks everything, and can at most use "the Googles" to do a search), or you're a "normal person" who can touch type and operate a GUI and maybe do basic formulas in MS Excel, or you're a "geek" who can read and write any type of programming code, build me a website, fix my internet connection, disassemble and repair my computer hardware, etc etc and you probably slid out of the womb knowing how to do that stuff. Yet somehow, you are still only making a modest hourly wage working at the Genius Bar or the Geek Squad. Where most people really should be is somewhere in between the "normal person," GUI-only level, and the imaginary super-geek, computer whiz level.